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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #75 on: January 30, 2020, 12:59:10 PM »

They show the XNA Connector on the on the potential project map for 30 million. But back in the fall when they Had open house hearing  on the the road there was 3 different routes so I haven't seen a time line when they would select one of the routes.

If they are going to build the west leg of the bypass, ARDOT needs to figure out where the airport road is going to be...especially since they are paying for it


Sometime this year XNA will announce a study finding and plans for 8 new gates. They have to have them now. Too many planes are RONing overnight for the gates they have. Southwest would surely want to RON overnight like they do at a bunch of the smaller stations. There's zero stalls in the stable availible. If growth continues like 2019, it will surpass LIT in traffic at the end of 2020 and be breathing down Tulsa's neck next.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #76 on: January 30, 2020, 01:01:45 PM »

They show the XNA Connector on the on the potential project map for 30 million. But back in the fall when they Had open house hearing  on the the road there was 3 different routes so I haven't seen a time line when they would select one of the routes.

If they are going to build the west leg of the bypass, ARDOT needs to figure out where the airport road is going to be...especially since they are paying for it


Sometime this year XNA will announce a study finding and plans for 8 new gates. They have to have them now. Too many planes are RONing overnight for the gates they have. Southwest would surely want to RON overnight like they do at a bunch of the smaller stations. There's zero stalls in the stable availible. If growth continues like 2019, it will surpass LIT in traffic at the end of 2020 and be breathing down Tulsa's neck next.

Shouldn't be hard if Walmart continues to grow.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #77 on: February 18, 2023, 11:16:02 PM »

ARDOT Public Comment meeting 2/21/2023 for the rest of the stack at Lowell/Springdale and the start of the eastern leg from I-49 to AR-265.

https://vpiph03-pi-job-090621-en-ardot.hub.arcgis.com/

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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #78 on: February 19, 2023, 12:03:37 PM »

Hopefully, more of AR 612/future US 412 can be funded and built relatively soon. Iā€™d hate for the project to go dormant for a couple decades.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #79 on: February 20, 2023, 12:26:59 PM »

https://www.ardot.gov/wp-content/uploads/090621Design.pdf

I don't know why they aren't just going ahead and build all the new bridges on AR-612 for 3 lanes throughout this project area, except for the overpasses that will need to be constructed for mainline AR-612 to pass under I-49, which they should just go ahead and do as 4x4, otherwise, they'll just wind up finishing construction about the time I-49 needs the extra lanes throughout NWA.  They for some reason appear to have 3 lane carriageways constrict back down to 2 lanes right before crossing a bridge and hitting an offramp, which seems like a dumb way to do it when they could just continue the 3rd lane across the bridge and make the rightmost lane an exit only lane to prevent all the merging just in time for an exit.  It's not like this is rocket science...
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #80 on: February 20, 2023, 02:51:09 PM »

Are they going to dig out I49 and build bridges over 612? If so, that will be a travel nightmare.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #81 on: February 20, 2023, 03:04:49 PM »

Are they going to dig out I49 and build bridges over 612? If so, that will be a travel nightmare.

Sure does look to me like the plan.

https://goo.gl/maps/bPiuzocvmhkW4tXi7
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #82 on: February 27, 2023, 04:24:15 PM »

Are they going to dig out I49 and build bridges over 612? If so, that will be a travel nightmare.

It never made sense not doing it the last time around, imagine a road that needs 8 lanes being reduced to two each way to do this.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #83 on: March 28, 2023, 09:12:53 AM »

Looks like getting the ball rolling on engineering work for the 4 level stack/undercut of I-49 and AR-612.

https://www.ardot.gov/news/23-090/
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #84 on: April 02, 2023, 05:49:58 AM »



This is an error. The AR 612 shield should be a US 412 shield. The latest Street View imagery shows the assembly is still there, but the AR 612 sign is missing. Perhaps they are planning on putting the correct US 412 shield up.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #85 on: April 03, 2023, 12:11:45 PM »


This is an error. The AR 612 shield should be a US 412 shield. The latest Street View imagery shows the assembly is still there, but the AR 612 sign is missing. Perhaps they are planning on putting the correct US 412 shield up.

It's not an error, but a placeholder designation like Arkansas does for Interstates as well.  It's still AR-612 as it's not US-412, but US-412 Bypass.  Now they will likely change it to US-412 (until it gets its I-** designation anyway, likely not until the 2030's) when the bypass is completed and change current US-412 to US-412 Business, but we're not anywhere close to that happening yet as the 2023-2026 STIP only has the western leg funded at $100M (Job 012326) in 2025, and $500K each leg of the 2 legs of the eastern half of the bypass for project development in 2025 (Jobs 090621 and 012366).

2023-2026 STIP Pg. 71/276
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #86 on: April 03, 2023, 08:14:21 PM »


This is an error. The AR 612 shield should be a US 412 shield. The latest Street View imagery shows the assembly is still there, but the AR 612 sign is missing. Perhaps they are planning on putting the correct US 412 shield up.

It's not an error, but a placeholder designation like Arkansas does for Interstates as well.  It's still AR-612 as it's not US-412, but US-412 Bypass.  Now they will likely change it to US-412 (until it gets its I-** designation anyway, likely not until the 2030's) when the bypass is completed and change current US-412 to US-412 Business, but we're not anywhere close to that happening yet as the 2023-2026 STIP only has the western leg funded at $100M (Job 012326) in 2025, and $500K each leg of the 2 legs of the eastern half of the bypass for project development in 2025 (Jobs 090621 and 012366).

2023-2026 STIP Pg. 71/276

While yes, the bypass is 612, I think the idea is to redirect traffic to the current US-412 at the western end of the bypass. There's no "West 612" to access except from I-49, and the 612 direction accessible at this interchange is eastbound. So, yes, it is an error.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #87 on: April 04, 2023, 12:52:09 AM »

It's not an error, but a placeholder designation like Arkansas does for Interstates as well.  It's still AR-612 as it's not US-412, but US-412 Bypass.  Now they will likely change it to US-412 (until it gets its I-** designation anyway, likely not until the 2030's) when the bypass is completed and change current US-412 to US-412 Business

I'm not talking about the freeway, I'm talking about the stretch of AR 112 between US 412 and AR 612. The sign shows that AR 612 continues west of the end of the freeway, which is incorrect. Turning left will put you on US 412, not AR 612.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #88 on: April 04, 2023, 12:56:55 AM »

It's not an error, but a placeholder designation like Arkansas does for Interstates as well.  It's still AR-612 as it's not US-412, but US-412 Bypass.  Now they will likely change it to US-412 (until it gets its I-** designation anyway, likely not until the 2030's) when the bypass is completed and change current US-412 to US-412 Business

I'm not talking about the freeway, I'm talking about the stretch of AR 112 between US 412 and AR 612. The sign shows that AR 612 continues west of the end of the freeway, which is incorrect. Turning left will put you on US 412, not AR 612.

Eventually ;)

But I never understood the "TO 612" vs "TO 412"
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #89 on: September 06, 2023, 02:43:05 PM »

Hello, first post.  I came here looking for an update on 612 both west to 412 and under 49 to 71B and 265.  It seems since the first segment's completion in 2018, it has always been "next year".  Have they acquired land?  Is there a date set for bids? Or what is next?  Thank you!
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #90 on: September 10, 2023, 08:20:56 AM »

Hello, first post.  I came here looking for an update on 612 both west to 412 and under 49 to 71B and 265.  It seems since the first segment's completion in 2018, it has always been "next year".  Have they acquired land?  Is there a date set for bids? Or what is next?  Thank you!

The western leg of the Springdale Northern Bypass is tied somewhat to the XNA connector road as it will utilize AR-612 as a terminus.  The 2023-2026 STIP has $100M allocated in 2025 for the western leg from AR-112 back to US-412 in Tontitown, so that's all that we currently know about timelines, and that's the next leg of AR-612 that will be built.

There's $500K for project development in 2025 for each of the eastern legs, from I-49 to AR-265 and from AR-265 to the end of the twin bridges over the White River east of Sonora on US-412.  So, only engineering work will happen on those legs before 2026.  I attended the Public Involvement Meeting for the I-49 to AR-265 segment earlier this year, and here are the materials for that meeting.  They'll have to undercut I-49 and make it an overpass for AR-612 mainlines to be the lowest level of the 4 level stack.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #91 on: September 11, 2023, 08:26:53 PM »

US-412/AR-612 will be I-42 eventually.

Oklahoma started the process to sign US-412 as I-42 today:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=29375.825
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #92 on: September 11, 2023, 09:34:35 PM »

Benton & Washington Hwy. 612 012326 Hwy. 412 ā€” Hwy. 112 (Springdale Bypass) (F) New Location 6.9 $150 - $200 Million. This on the bid list for November 1st. 2023.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #93 on: September 11, 2023, 11:00:00 PM »

Benton & Washington Hwy. 612 012326 Hwy. 412 ā€” Hwy. 112 (Springdale Bypass) (F) New Location 6.9 $150 - $200 Million. This on the bid list for November 1st. 2023.

Well, they certainly pulled that one forward.  The 2023-2026 STIP had this in 2025 a few months ago (and still to this day), and only at $100M, so nice to see it being made a priority.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #94 on: September 11, 2023, 11:25:51 PM »

Looks like they're making Old Highway 68 the on and off ramps for US-412B back to Tontitown/Springdale.  The current westbound US-412 lanes are going to take a northern bend and become an on ramp to westbound US-412 to tie back into the mainline, which will take an overpass over Old Highway 68 onto AR-612, which will at that point become US-412, relegating the current US-412 to US-412B, but that won't happen until the bypass is completed east of I-49 back to the twin bridges a while into the future.

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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #95 on: March 14, 2024, 11:24:29 AM »

XNA access road construction to begin this summer

Groundbreaking for both the XNA Connector and the western leg of AR-612 are April 17.

AR-612's western leg is supposed to be completed in 28 months, whereas the XNA Connector will take right at 3 years.  Work on both to occur concurrently and set to begin this summer.  Long bridges over Osage Creek's floodplain will take a while.
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #96 on: March 14, 2024, 01:00:08 PM »

Is there a timeline for when the AR 612 eastern extension to AR 265 might be constructed? Or is it too early to have a construction date for that segment?
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Re: AR Highway 612
« Reply #97 on: March 15, 2024, 11:28:14 AM »

Is there a timeline for when the AR 612 eastern extension to AR 265 might be constructed? Or is it too early to have a construction date for that segment?

There was $500K allocated for 2025 in the 2023-2026 STIP to get the ball rolling on the segment from I-49 to AR-265.  The public involvement meeting was last year for that segment, so they'll be getting into engineering and ROW acquisition shortly.  There was a $5M appropriation from the 2024 THUD (Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development) appropriation that was allocated to the US-412 Corridor for the interface for I-49 (which means towards the completion of the 4 level stack of AR-612/I-49), which is the big ticket item for the I-49<-->AR-612 eastern bypass section, so I would expect things to really get rolling on that portion in 2027 since the priority right now is the western segment and XNA Connector, and there was only the $500K 2025 STIP allocation through 2026.  Now, if more federal manna comes like it just did with that $5M appropriation for the interchange, then perhaps things get pulled forward a little, but no bids are out yet with engineering ongoing and without being the STIP, I don't foresee knowing the answer for sure before 2026 when the next STIP comes out.
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